Knowles, 55, may be known for his skill with a cordless drill but the TV favourite will down tools and pick up his microphone, with a full-length album of guitar covers that take ‘influence from Bob Dylan, Cat Steven and Ed Sheeran’, due just in time for Christmas.

‘Music’s always been a major part of my life since I was 14 and picked up a guitar,’ Knowles said.

‘I’m the kind of person who gets home from work and picks up the guitar and strums a lot. It’s always been part of my life and a friend of mine said to me one day: “why don’t you do an album?”, he added of his new project to The Sun.

Off to work we go: Nick is swapping drills for microphones on his album of guitar-based cover versions (Picture: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

‘So he connected me up to Universal, we did a couple of test tracks and they came back and said: “Would you like to make an album?”‘

Nick’s debut album will be released just in time for Christmas (Picture: Charlotte Graham/REX/Shutterstock)

‘The songs that you find on the album are songs that I’ve been playing for ten, 15, 20 years. It’s influenced by guitar players like Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, people like that. And then in the modern-day similar guitar players like Ed Sheeran and Newton Faulkner.’

Turns out that Nick isn’t the only TV personality that’s surprised us all with his love for music though.

People you didn’t know were musicians – and actually good (Picture: Getty)

There are some big names, comedian Jason Manford for one, or impressionist Alistair McGowan for instance, who you might not know have music careers on the side of what we know and love them for.

Both are gearing up to release new albums, with Jason finally recording the list of musicals he’d apparently always wanted, and Alistair re-learning the piano to nail down an album of classics.

And they’re just two names we wouldn’t expect to see in the charts. Check out these guys:

Alistair McGowan

Alistair is a talented pianist (Picture: Dave Hogan/Getty Images)

Did you know Alistair McGowan is a talented pianist? You’d be forgiven for not. He’s most famous as an impressionist starring on his own show Alistair McGowan’s Big Impression, and his top impressions are that of David Beckham, Gary Lineker and Jonathan Ross.

But now he’s releasing a solo piano album for Sony Classical. After learning for two years as a teen, he gave up, but he then took the instrument back up in 2016 and learned some classical pieces. He now hopes his album will inspire people to know it’s not too late.

Not only that, he has his own album of piano music out on September 29.

Jason Manford

Jason has one heck of a voice(Picture: Decca Records)

Jason Manford is releasing his album of musical hits on September 22, and blimey does he have a set of pipes on him.

Fans of the theatre might be aware of this, given that he’s starred in several West End shows, most recently as Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, but for those of use who hadn’t yet heard his dulcet tones will be blown away with this one.

He previously said he wanted to record with a big band and orchestra, and he’s now achieved that, having recorded an album of West End hits such as On The Street Where You Live from My Fair Lady, Hushabye Mountain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Stars from Les Misérables and Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha.

The album also includes a few duets, including one with his pal Alfie Boe.

Kiefer Sutherland

If you’re a Glastonbury fan you might know this one, otherwise it might come as a surprise that by day he may have been a CTU agent hell bent on stopping terrorists in 24 and by night he was dreaming about making sweet music. Sweet country music.

Now he’s on that stage, and in fact it’s been a year since his debut album, Down A Hole. The record reached number 35 in the US country charts and he went on to tour his new music, including a few dates in the UK, which of course took in the sights of the infamous Worthy Farm.

Ted from How I Met Your Mother

Josh (centre) is in a band (Picture: CBS)

Ted, AKA Josh Radnor, is actually a very talented musician as a funny man, and is in a band now that the sitcom is done and dusted after nine years.

Teaming up with indie musician Ben Lee the duo are called Radnor & Lee – and you can listen to their debut track, Be Like The Being, below: